Dr Benjamin D. Hennig

Honorary Research Associate

Academic Profile

Benjamin works on spatial data analysis and geovisualisation. His research interests include social and spatial inequalities, humanity's impact on Earth, global sustainability and new concepts for the visualisation of these issues.

Benjamin was educated at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven/Germany) where he conducted research on hyperspectral remote sensing applications in coastal ecosystems. After working as a research associate and departmental lecturer in human and urban geography at the Department of Geography, University of Cologne (Germany) he joined the Social and Spatial Inequalities Research Group at the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2008 where he completed his PhD in 2011 as part of the Worldmapper project with research on visualising the social dimensions of our planet. He continued working at the Department of Geography in Sheffield before joining the University of Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow in 2013. In September 2016 he joined the University of Iceland and remains an Associate in the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment.

Further information about his work can be found on his personal website: https://geoviews.net.

Selected Publications

Hennig, B. and Dorling, D. (2014) Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers, 47(1-2), pp. 21–28.
Fichtner, J. and Hennig, B. (2013) Political Insight, 4(3), pp. 38–38.
606896 - Offshore financial centres
Hennig, B. (2013) Journal of Maps, 10(2), pp. 186–194.
562884 - Gridded cartograms as a method for visualising ear...
Hennig, B. (2013) Rediscovering the world: map transformations of human and physical space. Springer-Verlag.
606895 - Rediscovering the world: map transformations of hu...
Hennig, B. (2013) Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers, 47(1-2), pp. 47–48.
Bastawrous, A. and Hennig, B. (2012) The British journal of ophthalmology, 96(10), pp. 1357–1358.
1303828 - The global inverse care law: a distorted map of bl...
Hennig, B. (2012) GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, 178, pp. 93–95.
1303820 - Reinventing the map collection: new journeys throu...
Paull, J. and Hennig, B. (2011) European Journal of Social Sciences, 24(3), pp. 360–369.
Loh, A., Simon, D., Hennig, K., Hennig, B., Härter, M. and Elwyn, G. (2006) Patient education and counseling, 63(3), pp. 314–318.
1346954 - The assessment of depressive patients' involvement...
Hennig, B. (no date). Wiley.
1303843 - Cartograms